Mr. Haider has pointed, in my opinion, he's spot on, to a very basic problem among otherwise thinking Pakistanis -- and I have brought this up on this forum to be forum adm and mods as well -- we confuse what this "freedom of speech" business really means, and the source our confusion is that we assume that all things are EQUAL -- this is a basic distortion in socialist democratic thought - -the idea that we need to free ourselves of assigning values or identifying values in the idea of "freedom of speech" --- we seem to be saying that the insurrgents/extremists/terrorists, call them what you will, are the EQUAL of the government and it's exclusive right to coersion.
This is the major reason Pakistanis seem so confused and the reason they are in constant denial about the threats they face.
India are a threat, but they are relatively distant and therefore all to easy to rage about, the real threat, disguised as "no muslim could do this" is close and so real and the populace so terrorized and in such denial that even when we realize that it is who we all know who has done this, we cannot get ourselves to say it out loud and then do what must be done. Easier to hurl abuses at the distant indian.
Interesting that we have not heard any "sovereignty" arguments as yet -- soon we may hear that these terrorists are the "real" nationalists, looking out for Pakistan's Muslim Honor and such.
It seems to me that Al-Qaida is desperate to get India and Pakistan fighting, they may realize that in a span of a year or two, Pakistan will begin more serious operations in the areas that they now enjoy "santuary" in - that they have usurped Pakistan's sovereignty there will be left to "democractic forces" to legitimize -
Mr. Haider points out that the failure of security -- After being hammered for more than 7 years, Pakistan remains ready willing and able to take even more hammering, don't believe me, look at the hammering it's politicians are dishing out, demoralized and confused security forces and general populace, led by myopic klepto politicians, kept busy at each others throats, all the while friends advice of caution and swift action is met by "demands" that $$$ can save Pakistan (read politicians) and that action demands even more $$$; pathetic.
But please don't let any of this get in the way of a good show, give the Indian hell or at least imagine it, even if just as an escape from the hell the islamist is giving you. Being the sporting ladies and gentlemen they are, Islamists like cricket too.
